As a follow up to Rebecca Hosking's film The Future of Farming, screened by the BBC in February, the South Devon Green Party is hosting an event in Totnes Civic Hall on Tuesday, 2nd June at 7.30-10.00pm. Train times from Exeter St. Davids: 18.21 arr. Totnes: 18.56.  Return Totnes: 21.52  arr. Ex. St. Davids 22.38 £5 return.

To start with there will be a screening of Rebecca's ground breaking film, on the links between farming and oil and investigating possible future farming methods. There will be a panel presentation by farmers and farming experts about the importance of grazing in future scenarios. There will then be time for questions and an open discussion.

Speakers include:

Rebecca Hosking & Tim Green, both film makers and local farmers;
Graham Harvey, agricultural story editor for R4's The Archers and author of The Carbon Fields;
Roger Creagh-Osbourne, Number 2 on the Green Party's list of candidates for the European Parliamentary election whose specialised subject is farming and fishing;
Geoff Sayers, local organic diary farmer.
Robert Somerville, Chairman of the South Devon Green Party will chair the discussion.

This event is for anyone active or just interested in local food production; anyone interested in the relationship between soils and Co2, anyone worried about our oil dependency, about our internationally competitive and highly globalised food system, or about national food security; anyone keen to support small scale agriculture and who wants to buy local, and anyone who missed Rebecca Hosking's film on the BBC.